Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 10
The Harz forests with their rich stores of game attracted not seldom the hunt-loving princes of Brunswick to their deep shades, and horn and hound and the wild ho ho! hio hi! of the hunter were heard over mountain and vale.
Who acts: game, forests · What happens: attract, hear, shade · To what, where: loving princes, Harz forests, mountain
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, forests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forests | det |
| 2 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forests | compound |
| 3 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stores | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stores | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stores | amod |
| 7 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forests | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stores | nmod |
| 10 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 game | acl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 princes | advmod |
| 12 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 17 princes | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princes | det |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loving | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hunt | punct |
| 16 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princes | amod |
| 17 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attracted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Brunswick | case |
| 19 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 princes | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 shades | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shades | nmod:poss |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shades | amod |
| 23 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attracted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hio | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hio | cc |
| 26 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hio | compound |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hound | cc |
| 28 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 horn | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ho | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ho | det |
| 31 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ho | amod |
| 32 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ho | compound |
| 33 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 horn | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 horn | punct |
| 35 | hio | hio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forests | conj |
| 36 | hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 35 hio | discourse |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 hio | punct |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hunter | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hunter | det |
| 40 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hio | nmod |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 heard | aux:pass |
| 42 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 mountain | case |
| 44 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heard | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 vale | cc |
| 46 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mountain | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | participle | game not said here | the loving princes of Brunswick | to forests's deep shades result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to shade=Result | |||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the Harz forests with forests's rich stores of game and horn hio of the hunter | mountain and vale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shade | forests = forest | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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